Stef Aupers

Stef Aupers

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H-index: 31

Europe-Belgium

About Stef Aupers

Stef Aupers, With an exceptional h-index of 31 and a recent h-index of 22 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, specializes in the field of Cultural Sociology, Media Studies, Game Studies, Sociology of Religion, Conspiracy Theories.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Debating (in) echo chambers: How culture shapes communication in conspiracy theory networks on YouTube

Pressure to play: Social pressure in online multiplayer games

Picturing Opaque Power: How Conspiracy Theorists Construct Oppositional Videos on YouTube

Introduction: A Cultural Sociology of the Authority of Science

Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience

Down the Rabbit Hole: Heterodox Science on the Internet

Post-human encounters: Humanising the technological Other in videogames

Eclectic Religion: The flattening of religious cultural heritage in videogames

Stef Aupers Information

University

Position

Professor of Media Culture

Citations(all)

4042

Citations(since 2020)

2027

Cited By

2616

hIndex(all)

31

hIndex(since 2020)

22

i10Index(all)

56

i10Index(since 2020)

41

Email

University Profile Page

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Stef Aupers Skills & Research Interests

Cultural Sociology

Media Studies

Game Studies

Sociology of Religion

Conspiracy Theories

Top articles of Stef Aupers

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Debating (in) echo chambers: How culture shapes communication in conspiracy theory networks on YouTube

New Media & Society

Kamile Grusauskaite

Luca Carbone

Jaron Harambam

Stef Aupers

2023/4/17

Pressure to play: Social pressure in online multiplayer games

The Information Society

Cindy Krassen

Stef Aupers

2022/2/7

Picturing Opaque Power: How Conspiracy Theorists Construct Oppositional Videos on YouTube

Social Media+ Society

Kamile Grusauskaite

Jaron Harambam

Stef Aupers

2022/4

Introduction: A Cultural Sociology of the Authority of Science

Dick Houtman

Stef Aupers

Rudi Laermans

2021

Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience

Journal of Consumer Culture

Lars de Wildt

Stef Aupers

2023/2

Down the Rabbit Hole: Heterodox Science on the Internet

Stef Aupers

Lars de Wildt

2021/5/13

Post-human encounters: Humanising the technological Other in videogames

New Media & Society

Iulia Coanda

Stef Aupers

2021/5

Eclectic Religion: The flattening of religious cultural heritage in videogames

International Journal of Heritage Studies

Lars de Wildt

Stef Aupers

2020

Digital Religion

Handbook of religion and society

Christopher Helland

2016

Contesting Epistemic Authority: Conspiracy Theories on the Boundaries of Science

Public understanding of science

Jaron Harambam

Stef Aupers

2015/5

Pressure to Play: Socio-Technical Pressure in Online Multiplayer Games

DiGRA’20–Proceedings of the 2020 DiGRA International Conference: Play Everywhere

Cindy Krassen

Stef Aupers

2020/1/1

Producing Nostalgic Belonging: an Interview Study of Assassin’s Creed’s Development

Lars de Wildt

Stef Aupers

2020

Mechanisms of disclosure: a socio-technical perspective on sociality in massively multiplayer online role-playing games

Television & New Media

Iulia Coanda

Stef Aupers

2020/3

Decoding Mass Media/Encoding Conspiracy Theory

Stef Aupers

2020/2/17

Role playing, video games and religion

Julian Schaap

Stef Aupers

2020/2/1

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Co-Authors

H-index: 47
Liesbet van Zoonen

Liesbet van Zoonen

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

H-index: 39
Dick Houtman

Dick Houtman

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H-index: 27
Jeroen van der Waal

Jeroen van der Waal

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

H-index: 26
Erik Snel

Erik Snel

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

H-index: 25
Willem de Koster

Willem de Koster

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

H-index: 18
Jaron Harambam, PhD

Jaron Harambam, PhD

Universiteit van Amsterdam

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